SPITFIRE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

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Editorial: Fonthill Media, 2024

1781553572 / 9781781553572

Librería: Naval and Military Press Ltd, Uckfield, Reino UnidoNaval and Military Press Ltd

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Hardback 194 pages with 18 colour / 52 black-and-white photograpsPublished Price £30 Spitfire Across the Atlantic tells the remarkable story of Flight Lieutenant James Elwyn Storey, the Anglo-Argentine RAF reconnaissance pilot who flew a Spitfire PR XI 1,800 miles across the South Atlantic in a record-breaking flight.Storey trained as a pilot in Africa before serving with RAF Nos. 542, 543 and 519 Squadrons during the Second World War. Flying unarmed, high-altitude photographic-reconnaissance aircraft, he undertook demanding missions over occupied Europe, gathering intelligence on German military activity. Among his assignments were sorties over V-1 flying-bomb sites in the Calais-Abbeville area as part of the Allied 'Crossbow' programme.After the war, with limited prospects for aviation employment in Britain, Storey decided to return to Argentina and establish an aerial photography business. He purchased a surplus Spitfire PR XI from the Ministry of Supply's Aircraft Disposal Department and, rather than ship the aircraft across the Atlantic, resolved to fly it home.Assisted with navigation by a British South American Airways Lancastrian, Storey completed the formidable 1,800-mile South Atlantic crossing in eight hours and forty minutes, establishing what was then the longest single flight ever made by a Spitfire.Drawing upon original archival documentation, first-hand accounts and previously unpublished photographs, Ricardo Martin Lezon's 2024 study traces Storey's career from wartime reconnaissance over Europe to his exceptional transatlantic achievement, combining RAF operational history with the story of a pilot who pushed the celebrated Spitfire far beyond its conventional operational limits.…

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Título
SPITFIRE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
Autor
Ricardo Martin Lezon
Editorial
Fonthill Media
Año de publicación
2024
Estado
New
Tipo de libro
Book
Encuadernación
Encuadernación de tapa dura
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
1781553572
ISBN 13
9781781553572
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Aviation & Space, World War II

Naval and Military Press Ltd

Uckfield, Reino Unido

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